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Delirium by Lauren Oliver

What if you could escape all the drama of your teen
years? Would you look forward to
that? Lena does, she can’t wait for the
day when she is cured, when she’s officially grown up and happy. Her life will be planned out and settled. Lots of people would like to live this
way-it’s not so bad is it? But where
does choice fit in? Love? Love is considered a disease. Something to be afraid of, avoided at all
costs.

With excellent writing, Ms. Oliver sucked me straight into
the world. I understood Lena’s fear and
her desire to leave that behind. A
society could easily talk itself into a cure and the isolationism. Changing the scriptures to suit society’s
needs with so many church and it would be to .
I missed the time frame--I think Lena must be second generation under
this system. I love how she has
woven in quotations from the “revised literature” of Shakespeare, Scriptures,
and yet included true quotations from classic love poetry. I hate how this book ended. I know it’s a trilogy, but ugh!!!! Cliff hangers are the worst way to end a
book.

“I understood that all the happiest moments of my childhood were a lie. They were wrong and unsafe and illegal. They were freakish. My mother was freakish and I probably inherited the freakishness from her.”